..We aimed to extend these findings to a real-world task, flight simulator performance. We hypothesized that IIV predicts poorer initial flight performance and increased rate of decline in performance among middle-aged and older pilots...

The role of motivation in the age-related positivity effect in autobiographical memory

Quinn KennedyStanford University, USAPsychol Sci 15:208-14. 2004

..In contrast, both younger control participants and participants who were focused on accuracy tended to remember the past more negatively than originally reported...

The roles of COMT val158met status and aviation expertise in flight simulator performance and cognitive ability

..Helicopter overland navigation is a challenging mission area because it is a complex cognitive task, and failing to recognize when the aircraft is off-course can lead to operational failures and mishaps...

The impact of brain size on pilot performance varies with aviation training and years of education

..The authors also found a decline in idea density, suggesting that more research is needed to better understand how interpretation of the language assessment tool may be affected by improvements in writing...